TY - BOOK ID - 25325627 TI - Apartheid and beyond : South Africa writers and the politics of place AU - Barnard, Rita AU - Davis, Geoffrey V. PY - 2007 SN - 9780199791163 9780195112863 0195112865 0199851050 0199791163 0198027265 0195354559 9786611158767 1429468734 1281158763 PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Thematology KW - English literature: authors KW - South Africa KW - South African literature (English) KW - Apartheid in literature. KW - Place (Philosophy) in literature KW - Littérature sud-africaine (anglaise) KW - Apartheid dans la littérature KW - Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature KW - Place (Philosophy) in literature. KW - Littérature sud-africaine (anglaise) KW - Apartheid dans la littérature KW - Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature KW - Afrique du Sud dans la littérature KW - Politics and literature KW - History KW - History and criticism. KW - In literature. KW - Politics and government KW - Politique et littérature KW - Histoire et critique KW - Histoire KW - Afrique du Sud KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - South Africa literature (English) KW - Apartheid in literature KW - Place (philosophy) in literature KW - in literature KW - Politics and governmant UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:25325627 AB - Apartheid and Beyond is a major contribution to the study of South African literary culture. It offers elegant readings of Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form revealed in their work. It also explores the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as residential segregation, bantustans, passes, and prisons. Though in the first instance concerned with literary texts, Apartheid and Beyond also meditates on crucial historical processes like colonial occupation, the creation of black townships, migration, forced removals, the emergence of informal settlements, the gradual integration of white cities, and efforts at land reform. Cumulatively, the six essays in this book tell the story of the transformation of apartheid's landscapes of oppression into the more ambiguous landscapes of contemporary South Africa: landscapes of tourism and leisure, of crime and privatized security, of uncontrolled urbanization and persistent poverty. Barnard's methodologically eclectic writing draws on the work of major European and U.S. theorists like Foucault, De Certeau, and Jameson, as well as important African intellectuals like Mbembe, Ramphele, and Ndebele. It also takes literary figures seriously as theorists of space in their own right. Apartheid and Beyond is both an innovative account of an important body of politically-inflected literature and an imaginative reflection on the socio-spatial aspects of the transition from apartheid to democracy. ER -